Research Of Slowness And Related New Design Ideas

Slow design is to cherish slow life, and to create a more sustainable life in now and future. The slow design theory is a growing design philosophy,"slowness"in slow design is somehow still a abstract concept but it's developing and perfecting. Now the disadvantage and negative aspects that"fast design"has brought to the development of a sustainable in now and future make people start to think deep about the slow design and it's philosophy. We can get the meanings of slow movement and slow design by looking through into the meanings of"slowness".And by revealing the development of the"slow movement"and the theory of"slow design"to get the idea of new design paradigm hence to have some new creative ideas of design for todays sustainability.This articel first talks about the fast society,and found the responsibility of design to today and future's envoriment, social, individual benefitsthrough revealing the relationship between design and consumerism.Then it talks about the meanings of"slowness"both in english and chinese, and reveals about slow philosophy along with it's roots from east world., to know the background of slow movement and slow design. At last this acticle conclued with ideas of new design paradigm and creative points: to change the view of time, hence to get the sustainability in design;to learn from nature, to have a process like nature circle in design;to learn and to respect the tradition and local cultural wealth,and to devote more in the details of daily life, to create a way for design demoncy.At last it's ended up with new funiture design ideas for practicing slow design with some of the creative ideas.